Links

Here are some links that in some way or another are related to Edward Abbey, his works and the areas he loved and fought for. I bet there are many more interesting pages out there on the Web, so please send me an email (clindh@homenet.se) if you find something that would fit in this list!

Disclaimer: keeping a link list up-to-date is a lot of work... I suggest you also use search engines like Alta Vista and directories like Yahoo to find relevant sites. If you find a broken link here or find a site that you think is really relevant and should be included here, let me know: clindh@homenet.se.

Other Abbey pages

Edward Abbey: A Voice in the Wilderness

Canyon Productions produced this film about Edward Abbey, and has made available the full transcript as well as some other interesting material.

Mike Jewells Abbey-page

The page contains information on Eds last public appearance, info on books about Everett Ruess and Katie Lee as well as some poetry and songs Mike has written (see Music below). He's even got a collection of monkey wrenches!

James Cahalan

James was the driving force behind the state historical marker for Ed that has now been erected in the town of Home, in Pennsylvania. James has also written the article My People and some other articles about Ed.

Other author pages

CyberSaunter: Henry David Thoreau

This site promises to be the home of a wealth of knowledge about the life and works of Henry David Thoreau.

Henry David Thoreau

Another page with many links to Thoreau-related information.

John Muir Exhibit

The John Muir Exhibit is a extensive collection of materials on the life and legacy of John Muir.

Environmental Philosophers

Short introductions to a few environmental philosophers.

ASLE

Association for the Study of Literature and Environment.

Yahoo : authors index

A comprehensive index.

Regions and places

In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rocks.

Great Basin Kingdom

This is the alternative user's guide to our weird, wild, thoroughly eccentric corner of the world.
Tourist, traveler and immigrant alike: Look no further!
Secrets of the Kingdom are revealed here.

Slot Canyon Hiking Page

Lots of information about slot canyons in Utah and Arizona, and how to hike them. Many pictures.

CityNet

Links to different areas in the US and beyond.

Discover Utah

Tourist information about Utah.

Utah Travel Guide

More tourist information about Utah.

Max Bertola's Southern Utah

Four years ago Max became southern Utah's first full-time travel writer. This is an electronic version of his free publication.

Utah Geography

This is a digital atlas of Utah generated by the Department of Geography and Earth Resources at Utah State University.

GORP Locations

GORP (Great Outdoor Recreation Pages) has an index with location-related links. There is also a page for Attractions, ie national parks, national forests etc.

Grand Canyon NP

About that well-known gorge in Arizona.

Stories, travelogues

The River That Flows Uphill

This is an entire book, a river diary by William H. Calvin of "a two-week white-water trip through the bottom of the Grand Canyon, discussing everything from the Big Bang to the Big Brain".
Read a chapter of this interesting book to find out that it's hard to read a book on the screen, then go out and buy the "analog" version on honest-to-good paper...

Grand Canyon rafting

This site includes an annotated rafting trip through the Grand Canyon, with nice photos. Highly recommended!

Grand Canyon hiking trip

Another annotated trip; here we get to hike with Joe Hudson and the Grand Canyon Junkies in the Grand Canyon. This story will make you want to descend at once!

Voyage to Another Universe

A travelogue for a trip Karen M Strom made in Arizona and New Mexico. Lots of images, poems and details as well as good writing by Karen.

Travels with Samantha

On the trip Philip Greenspun writes about in this excellent book he traveled through Utah. There he visited Salt Lake City, Moab, the Slickrock bike trail and Arches National Park.
He writes about this leg of the trip in chapter XV, but I recommend you to read the complete book

Southwest USA Travelogue

A travelogue from a trip done in 1992 by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. This document resides on a Gopher server so there are no images and fun links, but nevertheless it is interesting reading.

Photos

Also check out the travelogues above, some of them come with photos as well.

Canyon Light Photo Gallery

Some nice desert pictures.

Home Appliance Shooting

Ed shot his TV right in the eye, but this guy has shot many more stupid appliances.

Erosion, Light and Sandstone

Large format photographs by Melody Thomas.
Her Links page also contain links to other great desert photography sites.

NGPP

National Gallery of Photography and Poetry publishes great photos together with poetry. The poem Sandpainting And Desert Flowers is dedicated to Edward Abbey.

Slickrock Gallery

Kipp Greene live in the heart of the Escalante Basin and have just started Slickrock Gallery Fine Art Images of the Southwest and Desert Travel Guide. Excellent pictures, you can even buy some of you want.

Ansel Adams

This is mostly an exhibition of Ansel Adams: Fiat Lux which gives a portrait of the University of California in 1968, but there are also some pages about him and his other works. Posters and note-cards are for sale.

Images of Southern Utah

A few images by Brandon Plewe.

Camping in Southwest US

Mike Jewell has nice pictures from Southern Utah and Northern Arizona. Mike also has a page for Edward Abbey, which includes information on Eds last public appearance.

Jon Archers photos

Very nice photos from Arizona and Utah taken by Jon Archer.
Note: you must use a browser that support JPEG inlined images, like Netscape, to view these pages.

Dave Goldhamms photos

Dave has a few but nice photos from Utah and Colorado, and he hopes to add more soon.

Aerial Zona

Scenic aerial photographs of Arizona.

New Mexico photos

By Philip Greenspun.

Books and magazines

Bookstores and publishers:

Abbey's Web Bookstore

Order your Abbey books online trough the most popular online bookstore, amazon.com!

Dream Garden Press

Dream Garden Press is a small publishing company located in Salt Lake City, Utah. It publishes regional books about Utah, the Intermountain West, and the Southwest. Drem Garden Press has published editions of The Monkey Wrench Gang and The Brave Cowboy.

Ken Sanders, Books

Ken likes to buy and sell (and trade!) books that he like. Authors such as Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and B. Traven. Western Regional writers: poets, essayists, novelists, natural history writers.

River Gardens

River Gardens have many rare (and expensive...) Abbey books, with photos of the book covers.

Taugher Books

Taugher Books usually have some rare Abbey-books for sale.

Resources:

BookWire

The BookWire Index aspires to be the most comprehensive guide to book-related resources of the Internet. Go there and judge for yourself. Abbey's Web is listed on the Authors page.

Magazines:

Earth First! Journal

The Earth First! Journal is an independent periodical published eight times a year on the pagan holidays. The Earth First! Journal regularly includes: information and updates on Earth First! campaigns; news and announcements about Earth First! and other radical environmental groups; reviews and critiques of the environmental movement; book music and poetry reviews of interest to radical, hard-assed ecologists.

Arid Lands Newsletter

Published by The Office of Arid Lands Studies at The University of Arizona / Tucson, this newsletter covers topics such as Conserving Drylands Biodiversity, Desert Architecture and The Deserts in Literature.

High Country News

High Country News is a bi-weekly newspaper that reports on the West's natural resources, public lands, and changing communities. Covering 10 western states, from the Great Plains to the Northwest, and from the Northern Rockies to desert Southwest, High Country News is a respected source for environmental news, analysis and commentary on water, logging, wildlife, grazing, wilderness, growth and other issues changing the face of the West.

Desert Net

DesertNet is the Tucson Weekly's web site. Ed often wrote for the paper and was also a regular contributor to their Letters to the Editor page. Fans of Ed may enjoy checking out goings on in the city he loved to hate.

Music

The Haydukes

The Haydukes are a "folk fusion" band, named after George Hayduke.

The Ballad of Ned Ludd

"A listener-directed techno-folk opera".
The Luddites was a 19th century monkey-wrench gang, wrecking loom mills unless the owners improved working conditions and compensation.

On The Day Edward Abbey Died

Mike Jewell wrote this song the day Edward Abbey died, March 14, 1989. Mike promises us more songs soon, so check out his page for Edward Abbey.

Organizations, activism

Encyclopedia of Direct Action

This 'encyclopedia' covers progressive direct action groups, their campaigns and some of the many tactics that have been (or could be) used by these groups.

Cascadia Rising

Information and pictures from the blockade at Warner Creek and other forest campaigns throughout Oregon and Cascadia. Publicizes the efforts of the Cascadia Forest Defenders.

Big list of organizations

This list, published by EnviroLink lists all environmental organizations that have a presence on the Internet.

Earth First!

Earth First! is different from other environmental groups. They believe in using all the tools in the tool box, ranging from grassroots organizing and litigation to civil disobedience and monkey-wrenching. The Earth First Journal has it's own homepage.

Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance

SUWA is the voice of one of America's most threatened landscapes - the wild and unspoiled Colorado Plateau. Ten thousand concerned citizens from across the nation have joined SUWA's hard-hitting, grassroots commitment to save the magnificent canyon country of Southern Utah.

Utah Wilderness Web Site

This is an attempt to bring together laws, opinions, images and ideas that have influenced the current Utah Wilderness debate. The Utah Wilderness Web Site is a product of grassroots action and is not sponsored by any organization.

The Wilderness Society

"The nation's only conservation organization devoted primarily to public lands protection and management issues."

EnviroLink

The EnviroLink Network is the largest on-line environmental information service on the planet, reaching well over 550,000 people in 98 countries. Here you will find lots of resources for environmental activism such

International Arid Lands Consortium

The IALC is an independent, nonprofit research organization supporting ecological sustainability in arid and semiarid lands worldwide.

The Sierra Club

The Sierra Club is a non-profit member-supported, public interest organization that promotes conservation of the natural environment by influencing public policy decisions--legislative, administrative, legal, and electoral.

Rainforest Action Network

It's not just Utah that needs help, the whole world does. Think globally, act locally.

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